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When the former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra visited Bhutan in 2008, he marveled at how well-spoken the average Bhutanese was in the English language. He had good reason to be impressed because back in Thailand as we all know, the Thai language is all one hears. As a result of the Thai PM’s […] Continuous Assessment (CA) is a form of marking that does not measure performance purely on the final exam results. It is at least in theory, designed to measure a student’s overall learning that may not be properly reflected in a single 2-hour exam. In Bhutan CA is used in all grades up to class 10. […] Kevin Donnelly | The Australian | October 09, 2013 IT’S ever present but rarely acknowledged. Forget arguments about school funding, whether government or non-government schools achieve the strongest results, or what is the best way to reward teachers. The real problem – and one of the main reasons so many teachers leave after three to […] Decades ago, when they decided to close all hostel facilities in the capital, the reason given was that when educational facilities were in short supply, hostels were an inessential ‘luxury’. All the hostels in YHSS were promptly converted into classrooms. This act of prioritizing obviously makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, the understanding today seems […] Helping with maths at home 1. Encourage children to play maths puzzles and games. Award-winning mathematician Sarah Flannery reported that her maths ability and enthusiasm came, not from school, but from the puzzles she was given to solve at home (Flannery, 2002). Puzzles and games or anything with a dice will help kids enjoy maths […] by Tom Allon The Huffington Post You’re a college senior at Cornell University about to get a bachelor’s degree in history. You are in the top 20 percent of your class and you want to find a job you’re passionate about and will gain you some respect in society. You ponder your uncertain future, facing […] Unfair to foreign students. by R.N.Bhattacharjee Kuensel Forum 27 July 2013 During the last 24 years of my stay in Bhutan, I have received so much affection, love and respect that I do not even want to sound ungrateful to this god-blessed country and far be it from my thoughts and imagination. I do also […] BCSEA has issued a circular regarding the ‘trend’ in many of the higher secondary schools of skipping the teaching of class XI syllabi in the quest to ‘excel’ in the BHSEC XII exams. The circular states that the class XI syllabus is an ‘indispensable’ foundation not only for class XI but also for further studies. […] Randy Turner, English teacher Posted: 04/09/2013 4:58 pm Nothing I have ever done has brought me as much joy as I have received from teaching children how to write the past 14 years. Helping young writers grow and mature has been richly rewarding and I would not trade my experiences for anything. That being […] The Bhutanese education system, for reasons unknown to most, offers 3 streams of study. Students in grade XI must choose to study either Science, Commerce or Arts. The choice of streams is probably because the system of education was adapted from the ICSE board of India. The purpose of education is obviously to prepare students […] |
